Guidelines for Chinese-style weddings in rural areas, as good as city weddings!
1. Rural Wedding Arrangement
1. Venue: Rural areas are most suitable for outdoor weddings. Your own yard, wheat fields, farmland, and village squares can all be used as venues, and there are no venue fees.
2. Carpet: You can directly rent or buy fake lawn to cover the entire venue, or you can spread hay, dry leaves, green plants, or pave the aisles with flowers, ethnic carpets, etc.
3. Stage background area: An open background looks better for rural weddings. A simple wooden frame, or geometric arch, velvet curtain or woven blanket is very chic.
4. Guest area: For rural weddings, you can directly use benches or haystacks at home as seats, or you can rent unified bamboo chairs.
2. List of items for wedding sand shopping
1. Clothing accessories: bridal veil/Chinese dress, bridal ceremony veil, toasting attire, bridal veil, bridal wedding shoes (1- 3 pairs), bride’s wedding underwear, wedding bag, bride’s fan or bouquet, bride’s homecoming attire, groom’s suit, shirt and tie, groom’s shoes, socks and belt, groom’s corsage/pocket square, father’s suit shoes, mother’s dress shoes, Bridesmaid dress accessories, groomsmen dress tie, parent groomsmen bridesmaid corsage.
2. For engagement customs: betrothal gift money box dowry, red box dowry bedding, three gold/hardware diamond rings, six gifts for descendants, etc.
3. Wedding room decoration: large and small happy words, red wedding home textiles, balloons and other decorations, bed dolls (groom’s family).
4. Traditional wedding customs: red umbrellas, kneeling mats, red hijabs with scales, drinking glasses, braziers, saddles, red bowls and chopsticks, red arrows, red balls, bed sprinkles: jujube osmanthus , dragon and phoenix wedding candles, sugar cane and other good symbolic fruits, tea cups and trays, glutinous rice balls and dumplings, etc.
5. Guest entertainment: wedding candies (loose sugar), red envelopes, wedding candy boxes/invitations/souvenirs, dried and fresh fruits, wedding wine, drinks, mineral water, happy paper cups, fruit plates, etc. Hey cigarettes, Hey tea, desserts and fruit drinks in the dessert area.
6. Wedding process layout: sign-in books, pens, table cards/seat cards/welcome cards, wedding car decorations, door blocking props, groom’s red envelopes, firecrackers/salutes, photo props, vow cards .
3. Rural Wedding Decoration
1. Dessert area: You can put more "down-to-earth" snacks, such as fruits, Chinese pastries, jujube and cinnamon seeds, etc., suitable for all ages .
2. Flowers: Do not use more than 2 colors. They can be matched with pampas grass, wheat ears, cotton, branches, etc. You can also use pepper braids and corn braids for decoration.
3. Use other decorations: Old objects at home can be used for decoration, such as old cabinets, dustpans and pottery. Red lanterns, paper-cuts, fans and other elements can also be used in Chinese weddings. Balloons should be used sparingly or not, especially if they are not used. Colorful balloons, easy to make.
4. Rural Wedding
Q1: How to arrange the banquet for an outdoor wedding?
You can ask a chef to cook the food, set the table and host the banquet at your home. After the wedding ceremony, you can invite the guests to go directly to your own banquet place; you can also host a banquet at a nearby hotel, and after the ceremony, invite the guests Head to the hotel.
Q2: The bride is from out of town, where did she stay the day before?
You can stay at a hotel in the county or at the groom's relatives or neighbors' house in the village the night before, and the groom will pick him up the next morning.
Q3: Is it necessary to invite a wedding celebration for a rural wedding?
It depends on your budget and ideas. Many rural weddings are DIY. Although it takes time and effort, it is more suitable for you. However, if you want to have a fuller wedding decoration, it is still recommended to find a wedding planner. .
Q4: What should I do if there are bad marriage customs such as marriage troubles in the village?
Make an agreement with the elders and the groom in advance that no marriage fuss or other wedding customs will be allowed to occur. Try to simplify the process on the wedding day, remove the door-to-door procedures, etc., and proceed directly to the ceremony without giving any chance for wedding fuss. .